Archive for the 'Camping' Category

So over the weekend of March 21st I once again got to go on what has become one of my favorite yearly events, the Desert Rendevouz hosted by Dave and the wonderful people at http://americanadventurist.com/ This year the event was just off the Bradshaw Trail a bit north of the Salton Sea and only a few miles from Chiriaco Summit on I10.

So Mrs. Nomad and I decided to go camping for our Memorial Day. We got ourselves, the trailer, and the Jeep all loaded up and set off for Idyllwild Thursday afternoon prepared for a great weekend…

After battling our way past traffic on the 91 freeway we were finally on CA60 heading past UCR on our way towards Banning when we heard a distant “POP” Not thinking too much of it we continued on our way. Now, this stretch of the road is a bit of an incline, in fact lets just go all out and call it a hill. So we were heading up the hill after our “POP” and I was feeling the Jeep getting more and more sluggish, and I was starting to wonder what was going on. It was right about then that several people passing by us started motioning towards us and mouthing “You’re on fire!” . Needless to say we immediately pulled over only to find this: